• darvocet
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    1 year ago

    The 1500 hour rule means before you can fly folks in these commercial settings you have to have a LOT of hours. The way a lot of non-military folks do this is by being a flight instructor for many years - living on pennies. Then they can finally go work for a regional airline and make pennies.

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      And the fix from congress has been to weaken training standards, while we’ve seen a string of near-crashes this year